Show rlRSn BOVERSqS GU UllhT PROVEN TO JURY SSTE S HEUi Verdict That Wife Forged Poison Recipe SISTER PROCURED ARSENIC Mrs Sulton Must Stand Trial as Accessory Doctor McLaughlin Swears He Prescribed Pre-scribed Pill Containing Arsenic Strychnine Other Drugs J W San Francisco Sept IA Coroners jury has returned a verdict that Martin Bowers onjre to his death from arsenical arseni-cal poisoning that the poison vas procured pro-cured through a prescription forged by lUrs Martha 32 Bowers wife of the deceased de-ceased and that Mis Z C Sulton sister sis-ter of Mrs Bowers secured the poison on the ro god prescription Sirs Bowers Bow-ers was charged with murder AS TO MRS SUTTON Concerning her sister Mrs Sutton the jury said Wo do not feel justified from the evidence in charging Mrs Sulton is a principal but we recommend recom-mend that Mrs Sutton be compelled to stand trial as an accessory to the crime The police announced tonight that complaints charging both women with murder will be sworn out tomoiv row CORONERS INQUEST The olliclal Inquiry into the death of Martin IJ Bowers who died from arsenical ar-senical poisoning on August 25lh was begun before Coroner Leiand this morning morn-ing Mrs Dowers the widow of the deceased de-ceased and her sister Mrs Sutton both appeared at the inquest PHYSICIAN ON STAND The entire forenoon was consumed In examining the different physicians who treated the patient previous to his death The general trend of the testimony t testi-mony showed that t the sickness of the deceased was of a recurrent nature and that the attacks wore repeated at intervals inter-vals of several days PI < C UrI A R SYMPTOMS Dr MeLauprhlln whose name has boon connected with the Cowers case In the mailer I t of the proscription for arsenic alleged 10 have boon presented to Druggist Drug-gist Peterson by Mrs Sutton a sister of Mrs Dowers testified that he was puzzled by the peculiar symptoms suffered suf-fered by Bowers and that he had suspected sus-pected arsenical poisoning or other mineral min-eral I poisoning but was unable to satisfy sat-isfy himself on Ibis point PRI3SCIMPTTON A FORC1BRY Dr McLaughlin l i I testified t i that ho had never written a prescription for Row on calling for arsenic solely and that the prescription bearing his name was a forgery Dr McLaughlIn stated however how-ever that ho had ordered a pill prepared for the sick man which contained arsenic ar-senic strychnine and ot her drugs Several I other physicians testified to the peculiarities of Howers slcknosp especially es-pecially as to the recurring attacks after af-ter the patient was apparently progressIng progress-Ing towards recovery |